Animal-poke



(NoModeL) Y D. R. SAUNDERS 82; J. E. WBLLING.

ANIMAL POKE.

No. 340,367. Patented Apr. 20, 1886.

3 SQ mSES flttorney UNITED STATES PATENT FFICEO,

DAVID R. SAUNDERS AND OHl\ E. WELLING, OF LEESBURG, KENTUCKY.

\ ANlMAL-POKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,367, dated April 20, 1886..

Application filed January 29, 1886. Serial No. l90,1(i8. (Nu model.) I

To to whom it may concern:

Be itknown that we, DAVID R. SAUNDERS and JOHN E. WELLING, both residents of Leesburg, in the county of Harrison and State of Kentueky,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Animal-Pokes; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear,and exact description of the invention,which will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure l is a perspective View of our improved animal-poke,showing it applied. Fig. 2 is a side view of the poke, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line x m, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Our invention has relation to that class of animal-pokes which are provided with a forwardly-projecting curved bar supported under the neck of the animal, and having rearwardly-projecting prongs at its rear end covered by a spring-cushioned block, which prongs will be exposed and enter the breast of the animal when the animal bears against the poke-bar, and it contemplates certain improvements upon the poke for which Letters Patent No. 332,114 were granted to us on the 8th day of December, 1885; and it consists to that end in the improved construction and combination of parts of the same, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed. 7

' In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the poke-bar, which has a similar double curve as the bar described in our former patent, and which is provided with strips B upon its upper and lower side, for the purpose of strengthening it. The rearend of the poke-bar is provided with a cross-board, 0, having rearwardly-projecting prongs D and guide-loops E at its ends, and a perforated block, F, slides with its ends in the guideloops, and with its perforations upon the rear ends of the prongs covering them, the said parts being exactly similar to the parts already described in the aforementioned patent, a flat spring, G, holding the perforated block in its position in the outer ends of the guideloops.

All the hereinbefore described parts have been described in the patent-referred to above, and have the same functions as the parts in the former patent, and need, consequently, no further description.

The upper side of the curved poke-bar has a half-round recess or half-bearing, H, at the rear curve of the bar, and a strip, 1, secured to the upper side of the bar at both sides of the half-bearing, and, having a longitudinal slot, J, formsa bearing for the cross-piece K,which is journaled in this bearing, rocking in the same, and having a fiat pin, L, projecting into and sliding in the longitudinal slot, limiting the play of the poke-bar upon the cross-piece in the same manner as the poke-bar is secured to the cross-piece in the former patent. Two U-shaped guards, M M, are secured to the sides of the poke-bar straddling the crosspiece, and the ends of these guards have two transverse bolts, N N inserted through them and suitably secured to them, securing the guards to the sides of the poke-bar. The upper curved portions of the guards bear against the inner sides of shoulders O 0, formed at each end of the reduced portion P of the cross-piece which is within the bearing, and these guards'prevent the poke-bar from webbling upon the cross-piece and guide it in its motion upon the said cross-piece. The ends of the cross-pieces are formed with recesses having transverse bolts P I, which either may be formed integral with the cross-piece or may be inserted through the ends of the lips Q, forming the sides of the recesses, and the doubled portions of metallic straps R R are placed around the cross-bolts, projecting upward with their free ends. Straps S and T are passed around the doubled metallic straps, the said straps being made of leather, and are riveted to the metallic straps, and one of these straps (lettered S) is provided with a suitable buckle, U, at its upper end, while the other strap, T, is provided with a number of perforations, V, and may be en-' gaged by the buckle. By constructing the yoke which secures the poke to the neck of the animal in this manner the said yoke may be adapted to the neck of any size of animal, which is not possible with the Wooden yoke shown and described in our former patent,

and the portions of the yoke touching the neck and mane of the animal being leather, and consequently soft, the yoke will not Wear I off the hair upon the sides of the neck or of the mane of the animal,as the Wooden yoke is liable to do.

The metallic straps within the leather straps i will prevent the leather straps from Wearing out in the doubled portions, and will also. serve to stiffen the portions of the yoke at the sides of the neck, preventing the yoke from turning around upon the neck of the animal, fitting flat against the sides of the neck.

Having thus described our invention, We i claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesl 1. In an animal-poke, the combination ofa cross-bar secured to a yoke and having a re 1 duced central portion formed with shoulders I at its ends, a poke-bar having a bearing for 1 the said reduced portion and U shaped guards secured to the sides of the poke-bar at the bearing, having their upper curved portions bearing against the shoulders of the crossbar, and having their lower ends connected by transverse bolts, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. In an animal-poke, the combination of a cross-bar having transverse bolts in recesses at its ends, and having the'poke-bar rocking upon its middle, metallic strips having their doubled portions passed around the bo1ts,and having their upper portions united, and yokestraps of leather having their lower portions passed around the doubled portions of the metallic strips and riveted to the same, and having their other ends united by a buckle, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own we have hereunto afiixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID R. SAUNDERS.

JOHN E. VVELLING.

\Vitnesses:

R. H. GAYLE, N. SPEARS. 

